Pincer Insectoid Run by Epic Miniatures

It burst from the tunnel wall before anyone could react — a clicking, chitinous horror with serrated pincers spread wide and too many joints moving in entirely the wrong directions.

• ✔ 32mm scale resin miniature, printed fresh to order in the UK
• ✔ Supplied unpainted and ready to prime
• ✔ Compatible with D&D, Pathfinder, and all tabletop RPGs
• ✔ Equally at home on the gaming table or the display shelf

The Pincer Insectoid Run is a creature built entirely around forward momentum — a predator caught mid-stride, staff-like weapon levelled, serrated pincers fanned out like a threat display. The sculpt captures that distinctive insectoid unsettlingness: a broad, ridged carapace crowning the head, a jaw ringed with spiny protrusions, and limbs that bristle with jagged chitin at every joint. Flowing robes billow behind it, suggesting something that has learned to adopt a degree of civilisation — or at least found robes useful when infiltrating the settlements it hunts.

The second render shows the sculpt from a different angle, revealing the sweep of those robes, the coiling clawed hands, and the complex layering of chitin across the legs and feet. There is real craft in how the sculptor has balanced the organic insect anatomy with the suggestion of intelligence — this is not a mindless beast, which arguably makes it more unsettling on the table.

Whether you field it as a Thri-Kreen warrior, an aberrant Underdark predator, a hive-mind soldier, or the advance scout for something far worse lurking deeper in the tunnels, this miniature carries genuine narrative weight. It rewards careful painting — chitinous surfaces take washes beautifully, and the robes offer a contrasting texture that will make the organic elements sing.

• Adventurers who want an insectoid enemy that reads as intelligent and dangerous, not just monstrous
• Dungeon Masters building Underdark encounter tables that go beyond the usual humanoid threats
• Painters who enjoy working with complex layered chitin and contrasting fabric textures
• Collectors drawn to creatures that sit at the intersection of alien biology and unsettling purpose

Encounter Hook: The party has been tracking a series of disappearances from a trade road. When they finally locate the ambush site, a lone Pincer Insectoid emerges from a collapsed section of earth — staff levelled, pincers wide — and simply waits. It is not the threat. It is the messenger. Something beneath the road has been listening, and it has decided the party is worth a conversation.

Details

• 32mm scale miniature on a medium base (25.5mm)
• Multipart sculpt — some assembly required
• Available with or without a decorative base
• Supported and unsupported variants included
• Supplied unpainted and unprimed

Sculpted by Epic Miniatures — visit their collection to explore more creatures from their range.

Pairs well with aberration encounters and Underdark delves — or explore more from Epic Miniatures.

A soft purr of approval from the studio cats means this one passed quality control.

Ready to add this adventurer to your collection? Order today and we'll print it fresh for you here in the UK.